I am doing an experiment with this nativescript-cordova-support plugin to use with Azure Mobile Apps Cordova plugin

[baskarmib]

I am trying to do a sample for performing offline data sync with Azure Mobile App Service.

The below are the dependencies in my package.json

"dependencies": {
        "cordova-nativescript-plugin": "file:cordova-nativescript-plugin",        
        "cordova-plugin-inappbrowser": "1.5.0",
        "cordova-plugin-ms-azure-mobile-apps": "2.0.2",
        "cordova-plugin-whitelist": "1.3.3",
        "cordova-sqlite-ext": "2.2.0",
        "cordova-sqlite-storage": "2.2.0",
        "cordova-sqlite-storage-dependencies": "1.2.0",
        "cordova-sqlite-ext-deps": "1.1.0",
        "nativescript-theme-core": "~1.0.4",
        "tns-core-modules": "~4.0.0"
    },

I have set the mimimum sdk Version to 19 as suggested by cordova-plugin-ms-azure-mobile-apps documentation in AndroidManifest.xml

On running tns build android it fails with the below exception. The following folders are created in the platform folder.

1. Android
2. Cordova
3. TempPlugin

Failed to build plugin cordova-nativescript-plugin :
Error: Command gradlew.bat failed with exit code 1 Error output:
..\platforms\tempPlugin\cordova_nativescript_plugin\src\main\java\com\microsoft\windowsazure\mobileservices\cordova\MobileServices.java:18: error: cannot find symbol
import org.apache.cordova.CallbackContext;
                         ^
  symbol:   class CallbackContext
  location: package org.apache.cordova
..\platforms\tempPlugin\cordova_nativescript_plugin\src\main\java\com\microsoft\windowsazure\mobileservices\cordova\MobileServices.java:19: error: cannot find symbol
import org.apache.cordova.CordovaArgs;
                         ^
  symbol:   class CordovaArgs
  location: package org.apache.cordova
..\platforms\tempPlugin\cordova_nativescript_plugin\src\main\java\com\microsoft\windowsazure\mobileservices\cordova\MobileServices.java:20: error: cannot find symbol
import org.apache.cordova.CordovaPlugin;
                         ^
  symbol:   class CordovaPlugin
  location: package org.apache.cordova
..\platforms\tempPlugin\cordova_nativescript_plugin\src\main\java\com\microsoft\windowsazure\mobileservices\cordova\MobileServices.java:21: error: cannot find symbol
import org.apache.cordova.PluginResult;
                         ^
  symbol:   class PluginResult
  location: package org.apache.cordova
..\platforms\tempPlugin\cordova_nativescript_plugin\src\main\java\com\microsoft\windowsazure\mobileservices\cordova\MobileServices.java:22: error: package org.apache.cordova.PluginResult does not exist
import org.apache.cordova.PluginResult.Status;
                                      ^
...\platforms\tempPlugin\cordova_nativescript_plugin\src\main\java\com\microsoft\windowsazure\mobileservices\cordova\MobileServices.java:30: error: cannot find symbol
public class MobileServices extends CordovaPlugin {
                                    ^
  symbol: class CordovaPlugin
...\platforms\tempPlugin\cordova_nativescript_plugin\src\main\java\com\microsoft\windowsazure\mobileservices\cordova\MobileServices.java:35: error: cannot find symbol
    private CallbackContext resultContext;

location: class SQLiteConnectorDatabase
...\platforms\tempPlugin\cordova_nativescript_plugin\src\main\java\io\sqlc\SQLitePlugin.java:61: error: method does not override or implement a method from a supertype
    @Override
    ^
Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
100 errors

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':compileReleaseJavaWithJavac'.
> Compilation failed; see the compiler error output for details.

* Try:
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BUILD FAILED in 4s

To verify the plugin I performed the below using cordova

cordova create hello com.example.hello HelloWorld Navigate to hello folder and run the below

cordova platform add android
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-ms-azure-mobile-apps
cordova build android

It builds properly.

I verified the build.gradle settings in cordova project under path (C:\CordovaProjects\hello\platforms\android\app) . It had the below entries.

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '*.jar')
    // SUB-PROJECT DEPENDENCIES START
    implementation(project(path: ":CordovaLib"))
    compile "com.microsoft.azure:azure-mobile-android:3.4.0@aar"
    compile "com.google.code.gson:gson:2.3"
    // SUB-PROJECT DEPENDENCIES END
}

Verified the build.gradle file under NativeScript project (C:\NativeScriptProjects\DataProject\platforms\tempPlugin\cordova_nativescript_plugin) .

It had the below entries.

dependencies {
    def supportVer = "27.0.1"
    if (project.hasProperty("supportVersion")) {
        supportVer = supportVersion
    }
    compileOnly "com.android.support:support-v4:$supportVer"
    compileOnly "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:$supportVer"
}
dependencies {
    compile "com.microsoft.azure:azure-mobile-android:3.4.0@aar"
    compile "com.google.code.gson:gson:2.3"    
}

It looks like the required project class files are not referenced from the nativescript generated cordova temp plugin folder.

There is a nativescript version of azure mobile apps plugin but it does not include offline sync capability.